Madhavan Nair, J.

1. The plaintiff is the appellant. The appeal arises out of a suit instituted by the plaintiff, the widowed daughter-in-law, against defendant 1, her father-in-law, and the other members of the family for a partition and separate possession of her husbands share of the properties specified in Schedules A, B, C and D of the plaint. Defendant 1 had married two wives By his first wife, defendant 6, he had two sons, Sri ramulu and Punnayya. Sriramulu died in 1911. His son is defendant 4. Punmayya died in 1923. His widow is the plaintiff. Defendant 5 is the brother of defendant 6 and brother-in-law of defendant 1. Defendants 2 and 3 are the children of defendant 1 by his second wife.

2. Schedule A of the plaint comprises properties gifted by defendant 5 under Ex. A to defendant 1, Punnayya, the deceased husband of the plaintiff, and defendant 4, the grandson of defendant 1; B schedule comprises properties that were subsequently acquired by defendant 1; 0 schedule comprises the ancestral properties of the family ; and D schedule consists of debts for which promissory notes and bonds were taken in the name of the plaintiffs deceased husband. The plaintiffs case as